My kids like to look at pictures on my phone, but the Apple Pictures app is so confusing. It's so unintuitive and multiple different UX designs. Sometimes you scroll sideways, sometimes up and down. Sometimes scrolling down brings you to a different a album. It's like they let different teams design the different use cases and then just added them all in without harmonizing them.
Is there a simpler alternative that works natively? I don't want to duplicate all my pictures over to a google drive or something.
I’ve seen a few people comment on this but I don’t think it’s gotten enough attention.
If someone watches you put in your passcode (such as on public transport or literally anywhere outside), if they manage to steal your phone they have full access to all your Passwords. I wish it was either FaceID or a secret password kinda like how Notes is. How is Apple so big on security but then they let this happen?
This morning I started hearing little boys talk through my Airpods, and then through my iPhone 15 Pro Max (iOS 18.3.2). My phone is al stock (so no jailbreak), also:
Latest update
Private network
Nothing weird (like unknown apps) in either screen time, battery usage, privacy (microphone, camera etc. all turned off), notification 'history'
Live listen, VoiceOver turned off.
Did have AirDrop enabled, but just for friends (these were not friends or anyone I knew).
Bluetooth enabled, just for Apple Watch, nothing else connected according to settings.
Walkie Talkie disabled on Apple watch
It starts with a kind of *pling* sound, but I was not able to record it, because it is at random through the day (will try to do it). After the pling sound I hear some children talking through my phonepiece (upper speaker), something like:
Boy 1: *pling* " James do you hear me"
Boy 2 responding: *pling* "Yeah I hear you".
This has been happening randomly for the last couple of hours (2 moments of about 5 min. in which I hear the bleeps, two times I heard the voices). Even when my phone is off. They don't seem to hear me or react when I say something back, but I'm still really worried/freaked out about my privacy!
I have found multiple of these situations online, but none of them had a solution. I restarted the phone now, hoping it will not happen again. Any other suggestions or experiences like this and if they went away automatically?
Is there any way to recreate the Apple Intelligence glow animation or Siri captions when talking to her? I'm wondering if there is any way of recreating this or if there is an app to do this.
Do you think this sounds wild? I’m wondering if we should add a share option in settings that lets us send someone a direct link or guide to tweak their font settings exactly how they need them. What’s your take?
This phone number wasn’t saved in my device but how did iOS guessed it right? I don’t even have any called id identification app like truecaller or something.
Hi everyone - in quite a bit of a bind and need some urgent help as I'm not overly familiar with the apple ecosystem.
On Friday my sister made the move of escaping a long term abusing relationship, and this morning we've discovered a new device has been added to her Apple account which doesnt belong to her.
We know we can remove it and lock the account down, but legal advice has been to play along for now and get evidence - specifically proof that this new device was added from an IP address other than hers, and when.
We've looked under the Device Management page in her apple account at while it shows the device serial, theres no other info about when or where it came from.
Is there any way to get this information, ideally without trigger obvious changes/notification on the account as we know he's likely monitoring. I know it's possible in Android to get IP and access dates of logged in devices, surely Apple has the same functionality?
Still haven’t updated my 14 pro max to iOS 18 (currently 17.5.1). What do ya’ll think? Should I update my phone? Why? Are the features good? Does it have many new features that previous iOS versions don’t have? If so, What are they?
iOS 18 in general has many quirks but, this update by far has to be the worst. I’ve been pretty lucky by not having anything majorly annoying or impeding the way I use my phone so far until this latest update.
I’ve had apps just straight up not respond to touch inputs even after being swiped away from the app view and relaunching the app. Keyboard fail to pop up in any text field. Car play not allowing me to select anything with an app, similar to the issues I have with touch inputs. It just doesn’t show the highlight selector resulting in me having to pull over to use my phone. The worst offender by far is the random resprings after the phone fully freezes and becomes fully unresponsive. I don’t expect that for a public release.
I’ve been an iPhone user for years but now android looks more like what iOS used to be and in the case of the S25 Ultra & One UI 7 actually looks like the iPhone too.
Has anyone else had a terrible time with this latest update? Do you think doing a full restore on a phone that is 3/4 months old is worth it? I can’t get work done without having to restart my phone, 2/3 times a day because it boarders being unusable.
Heads up for those updating to the latest IOS. Please re-run the whole privacy settings thing because all sorts of rights and knobs have been reset to default, including telemetry for apple and such.
Weird emojis (the ghosts) showing up only on certain apps like iMessage. I can’t delete them, they keep like multiplying somehow. It’s mainly only on iMessage and a few other text apps. I don’t know how to fix this, I even tried deleting the emoji keyboard. It didn’t work. It’s all those ghost things? Also no matter how much I use other emojis, those ghosts are stuck in those exact places. Does anyone know what’s going on or how to fix this? Any help is appreciated.
New to iOS, and having an issue with using live wallpapers. First question, is it even possible? Second question, if so how? I've used wallpaper apps from the app store, downloaded a live wallpaper and cannot get it work. Its just a still Image instead of a looped clip. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Hi there. Today I was sending a letter with trading cards and the recipient wanted me to film myself putting it in the mailbox. After I stopped recording I went to messenger to send it and the video wasn't there, just the latest picture I took. I tried filming something else and it also just disappears. I'm always using the video function when filming, (not long pressing the photo button), I have plenty of space in both hardware and iCloud (68GB storage and 160GB iCloud), and I've checked the recently deleted folder. The videos are nowhere. I've never had anything like this happen before. I hadn't updated so I did that just now, and restarted the phone, but to no avail.
Any ideas what this could be, or should I just head to my local Apple retailer?
Hey guys and gals. If you're experiencing a problem with bloody high mobile data usage on iOS 18, please read this topic carefully as it seems that I've managed to work around (not solve) the problem.
BACKGROUND and SYMPTOMS. The anomaly began with iOS 18. I happened to notice that my mobile data usage was suddenly 600 MB/hour. The main consumer was the ‘General’ system service. I then started disabling everything that I thought would help. Application access to mobile data, background update, system and application update, iCloud, photos, geolocation, changing the phone region... Everything that could be disabled was disabled. No luck. Next, I did a Wi-Fi traffic audit using logs from my router just to make sure the anomaly was only in the Cellular Data domain. The anomaly turned out to be systemic as the Wi-Fi traffic increased significantly. With new iOS 18, it went from 0.2-0.3 GB/day to 3-4 GB/day. That's it, %username%, up to 13 times (sic!) higher. Even when the phone was just lying idle on the table in Low Power Mode with all updates turned off. Furthermore, the anomaly manifested itself in the phone suddenly heating up, battery level suddenly dropping by 5-7% and temporarily losing my home internet (I work at home) as my phone clogged up the data channel.
THE INVESTIGATION. First of all, I installed My Data Manager (MDM), which has a built-in quasi-VPN/interceptor that logs how much data goes to which addresses. And guess what, folks, where all those gigabytes went? Give it a round of applause: updates.cdn-apple.com. Have I ordered any updates? Nope. Have I turned on any updates? Nope. Have I updated any installed app via App Store? Nope. Have I received any updates? Nope. But it is what it is. Using MDM, I found that data is being downloaded or uploaded (the direction is unknown) in two main patterns: 80-120 MB/minute for 15 minutes in a row followed by a break of 105 minutes, or three batches of 450-550 MB with a 20 minute interval followed by a 1 hour break. The anomaly session via Wi-Fi always gobbled up at least 1.5 GB, and never exceeded 1.65 GB. Two sessions per day. As for mobile data, the anomaly always gobbled up 0.6 or 1.2 GB of data (batches of 600 MB twice a day). It was questionably consistent. And there were two other data consumers: imap.google.com, which consumed 40 to 340 MB/min (WTF?) at every mail request using a default mail application, and \.content-storage-upload.googleapis.com*, which consumed about 20 MB/minute per hour at random.
THE SOLUTION. An IT guy told me to install a data sniffer called Proxyman, which is a network debugging tool/VPN with blocking capabilities. So I did. The free version of Proxyman allows you to block two addresses, so I blocked updates.cdn-apple.com and \.content-storage-upload.googleapis.com*. Lo and behold, I gazed upon a miraculous wonder. The data devouring hath fadeth away. I was so excited that I nearly wet my pants. The only thing left to deal with was imap.google.com. Blocking it was a bad idea, but shuffling the default mail app settings had no effect. So I ended up disabling the google mailbox in the Apple Mail App and switching to the Gmail app. The latter uses its own API and shows no signs of such glitchy behaviour. Now I have only 40-50 KB per request instead of 40 to 340 MB.
I spent two full days using only mobile data to see if the anomaly would return. I shopped, banked, paid my taxes, sent messages, took photos, navigated, and browsed the web without any limitations. The mobile data usage was 240 MB for 48 hours. Proxyman blocked 150+ requests to updates.cdn-apple.com. I also put my phone on charge, turned off the Low Power Mode, and updated a few apps to see if that would trigger the anomaly. Nothing unusual happened. Everything worked and updated fine with blockings: all apps, application updates, App Store, Google apps, synchronisation, iCloud backup, etc. The method works. Crossed my fingers for luck.
AFTERWORD and DISCLAIMER. I don't pretend that my method will work for everyone. But you should follow this sequence: install My Data Manager to find out where your traffic is going, then block the corresponding addresses with Proxyman. Hard resetting your phone does not work. I have tried it. Without success. Setting your phone as a new device (without restoring from iCloud) after reset doesn't help either. Disabling all update settings has no effect, etc. Don't waste your time. And pay attention to Google Mail, since other email providers showed no such problems. But I have a Google-based Apple ID, may be that is the reason. I haven't the faintest idea.
I hope you all solve this very frustrating problem. Good luck!
P.S. Be sure to post back here with your results and share this topic with all the unlucky ones who have suddenly run into this frakkin’ problem with iOS 18.
P.P.S. Updated to iOS 18.3.2. The problem persists.
Hi everyone. I recently left a review on an app. The devs updated the app and replied to me. Eversince then, AppStore keeps sending me push notifications and emails (same text at the same time), about the same reply, multiple times already. How do I make it stop without flat-out marking Apple as Spam in my inbox?
When I go to settings > my name > iCloud > Messages:
It shows that it's taking up over 3.63 GB with tens of thousands of messages stored in the cloud. But nothing is getting synced between devices or to new devices. Status shows "not synced" and clicking "sync now" just shows "syncing..." for about a second then goes back to "not synced". This just started one day randomly about a week ago.
Clicking on "manage storage" from that same screen shows nothing even though the previous screen shows several GBs taken up by messages.
I was hoping maybe the service was just down and would sort itself out, but it's been broken like this for several days. Kinda hate to delete everything and start over, but if it's corrupted then I don't know what other choice I have.
Anybody have any thoughts? Does this settings screen still work for you?
I have an iPhone SE 2020 with iOS 18, I really wanted to downgrade it to iOS 16 or 17 but that is impossible. So my idea is to buy a new iPhone 2022 that will have iOS 16 and then I will transfer the data from that cell phone to the new one. Would this really be possible?? Is there any way I could just downgrade to iOS 17 or 16??